Construction Grammar in a Cross-language Perspective

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Construction Grammar in a Cross-language Perspective is written by Mirjam Fried and published by John Benjamins Publishing. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9027218226 (ISBN 10) and 9789027218223 (ISBN 13).

This volume gives an easily accessible, yet comprehensive, sophisticated, and example-rich introduction to Construction Grammar as it has been developed from the early 1980's by Charles J. Fillmore and his associates. It also provides a succinct account of the historical and intellectual background of the model and shows how Construction Grammar can easily be applied to typologically very different languages and to a variety of language-specific phenomena. All of the contributors to the volume came out of the Fillmorean school at UC-Berkeley and have worked consistently on applying and further developing the model in various domains of linguistic analysis.The 'Thumbnail sketch' by Fried & Östman is the only extensive introduction published so far to Fillmorean Construction Grammar.